Unions and Labour MPs Demand PM Starmer Resign Over Party’s Worst Election Defeats in History

 

Failing Keir Starmer pressioned to resign by his own allies

His allies have turned on him, at last.

It’s less than two years since Keir Starmer became British Prime Minister after a landslide victory for his Labour party.

Since then, his popularity only diminished, and he became a hated political figure like few in recent history.

And this week’s local elections may have been the final straw, as rightwing Reform UK gained 1,244 new seats in local councils, while Labour lost 1,022.

That catastrophic result has led to his Labour MPs and even union bosses to break ranks and demand Starmer’s resignation, after what turned into the party’s worst local elections defeat in history.

Some Labour members of parliament even warned that he could ‘end the Labour Party’ if he did not stand down.

The Telegraph reported:

“Critics lined up to call for a new leader after Sir Keir was blamed for Labour’s historic defeats across England, Scotland and Wales, losing councils that had never been run by another party and giving up control in Wales for the first time since devolution.

MPs said he should immediately announce an orderly timeline for his departure, allowing leadership challengers to set out their pitch this summer. They were followed by the leaders of Unison, the public services union, and TSSA, its transport equivalent, who called for the Prime Minister to quit.”

“Labour lost hundreds of English council seats to Reform UK and saw the collapse of stronghold councils including Tameside, Blackburn, Gateshead and Sunderland, which fell to Nigel Farage’s party after 50 years of Labour rule. Baroness Morgan of Ely, the Welsh First Minister, lost her seat in a disastrous performance for Labour at the Senedd that paved the way for an administration led by Plaid Cymru for the first time.”

“Sir Keir has resisted calls to resign, insisting he would not ‘walk away and plunge the country into chaos’, although he has not explicitly ruled out a managed transition to another leader.”

Watch: Starmer refuses to resign.